# Jump in the Fucking Pool Assholes! The kids dieing!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jump-in-the-fucking-pool-assholes-the-kids-dieing/249766
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 11, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jump-in-the-fucking-pool-assholes-the-kids-dieing/249766 "2004-06-11T03:20:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jump-in-the-fucking-pool-assholes-the-kids-dieing/249766/1 "2004-06-11T03:20:30Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/06/10/young.rescuer.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/06/10/young.rescuer.ap/index.html)
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> As somebody called 911, adults hurried to the pool area, but the water was so filthy, so filled with debris, that they couldn’t see Donnie. Another maintenance man, Andre Mitchell, said he poked the water with a long aluminum pole used to clean pools but turned up nothing.
I’m hoping I’m missing some piece of this story otherwise these “adults” need to be pistol whipped. They couldn’t “see” him? Poked the water with a pole? WTF? It says that the water was drained enough that the shallow end was dry. There is NO reason that the people couldn’t get in the fucking water and find the boy. Unless this pool was like 15 feet deep, which I have NEVER seen at a home or apt. When I was 8 I was able to find a fucking quarter on the bottom of the pool without opening my eyes. You’re gonna tell me you couldn’t find a 6 year old boy in shitty water? They couldn’t have been seriously trying.
So it was dirty and murky? So what? Fuck.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jump-in-the-fucking-pool-assholes-the-kids-dieing/249766/2 "2004-06-11T03:40:46Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260942) an earlier thread discussing this. Not in the Pit, but the “adults” you speak of are taking a beating over in MPSIMS anyhow.